IS IT TRUE the James Bethel Gresham home in Garvin Park should be having bids made starting today to do the necessary repairs to bring it back to the condition of honor that it deserves to be kept in?…that the City County Observer would like to thank Jordan Baer for alerting us to the situation with this WWI shrine and for providing the pictures that inspired this call to action on the part of the Winnecke Administration that has been quite informative and cooperative in this matter?…the Parks Department in its obliviousness allowed this home to fall into disrepair and that we hope something is being done to correct the system in place that produces failure after failure?…we don’t even know when the ceiling in this home fell in?…it could have happened during the Weinzapfel Administration under different Parks Department leadership?…if this home were Roberts Stadium that it would be on the list for the wrecking ball over the leaking roof?…the restoration that is scheduled to begin today is a bright spot in this week and we once again thank Mr. Baer and congratulate the Winnecke Administration for taking the appropriate action rather than making a pile of excuses?

IS IT TRUE a number of friends and Moles have alerted us to a loss of bandwidth that seems to have occurred recently at Innovation Pointe?…the system installed back in 2007 was set up to deliver a top speed of 20 Mbs and consistently delivered speeds to individual computers that were over 10 Mbs with multiple users online?…of all the things that modern businesses and especially technology businesses need to be able to count on that high bandwidth is the most important?…it has been published often that a business park without sufficient bandwidth is not a business park at all?…since the CCO has never heard of such a problem at Innovation Pointe before that something must have happened to cause such a drop in bandwidth?…that one Speedtestâ„¢ run yesterday barely made it to 2Mbs which is well below what most residential home services deliver?…we encourage the powers that be to do whatever they need to do to get the bandwidth back to at least where it was securely set to in 2007 as without it the whole mission of this project pretty much goes out the window?

IS IT TRUE that if one is to delve into why so many people seem to be confused about things nowadays we should look no further than the changes in the definition of what is a tax being put forth by the Obama Administration?…that the latest foray into redefinition of the word tax is being asserted by our Attorney General Eric Holder who was recently voted to be in contempt of Congress and awaits trial?…that Attorney General holder has now put forth the argument that requiring people to show a identification card to vote is a “POLL TAX”?…that in order to do most anything in the United States of America including starting a job, cashing a check, boarding an airplane, driving a car, enrolling in school, entering the country from abroad, applying for a GOVERNMENT CLEARANCE, and a host of other things that one must show identification?…that the IRS even requires that an infant have a Social Security number in order to be claimed as a dependent on a tax return?…there is plenty of federal precedent that an ID be required for activities that are much less important and sacred than voting?…that Attorney General Holder even had the audacity to call a Voter ID a “POLL TAX” after the US Supreme Court has upheld the use of Voter ID’s in a case brought by the State of Indiana?

IS IT TRUE that the Wall Street Journal called AG Holder out the hardest when it published the following:

“Mr. Holder’s wallowing in a Jim Crow metaphor to score political points is a discredit to his department, to the rule of law, and to the nonracist country that 45 years after the Voting Rights Act made him its chief law enforcement officer.”?…that our government that refuses to call a tax a tax, obstructs congressional investigations, and now fans the fires of racism at an NAACP meeting needs a serious course in the language of reality?…it is all about TRUTH and TRUST and thus far this administration has mastered neither?

IS IT TRUE last night’s meeting of the Evansville City Council was both inspirational and comical?…that when some of our citizens rose to admonish the Council regarding the dilapidated state of the James Bethel Gresham house that it was inspiring to see for the first time in a while that the Evansville City Council finally gets it that the City of Evansville is doing an unacceptable job of taking care of things?…that a trip to the Oak Hill Cemetery yesterday by a CCO associate confirmed that not a darn thing has been done about the state of the cemetery that was exposed during Memorial Day weekend?…it is truly time for the City of Evansville to at least learn to sweep it’s front porch as the neglect of this city is completely offensive?

IS IT TRUE that the comical part came at the end when Evansville City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr. was trying to schedule a time when the members of the City Council could attend the necessary budget hearings?…the target month for meetings is August?…that day after day was rejected because some member of the Council could not attend for personal reasons?…it was reminiscent of trying to get an appointment with a business leader in Europe during August when the continent basically shuts down so everyone can have the holiday that they have voted themselves an entitlement too?…now we know why things can’t seem to get done in Evansville?…Evansville or at least our City Council seems to have turned into France when it comes to working in August?…they should just have the budget hearing in May if it is really necessary to be gone during August?

IS IT TRUE the battle for taxation has started in a big way between President Obama and Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney?…that most of the numbers are not very different than they were in the face off between President Obama and Congress in 2010 with the President wanting to raise taxes on those whose annual earnings are over $200,000 and Romney basically favoring keeping the rates on earnings where they are now with a few exceptions?…the two exceptions that are not getting much airplay but will take the biggest bite from peoples personal money are the death tax and the tax in dividends?

IS IT TRUE it has long been expected that the next 10 or 15 years would result in the biggest generational transfer of wealth as the baby-boomers started to inherit the wealth that their thrifty generation parents saved the old fashioned way?…that ABC has estimated that the total inheritance that the baby-boomers are likely to see is about $11.6 Trillion?…that number has decreased by roughly $1 Trillion during the last 2 years?…that Governor Romney’s tax proposal is to eliminate the death tax altogether but that President Obama’s plan is to raise the death tax to 45% with a yet to be disclosed threshold?…that President Obama’s tax plan if passed will take roughly 40% of the soon to be inherited money (after threshold) and confiscate it for the federal government?…that amounts to nearly $5 Trillion that should go to the heirs of the generation that saved that will go to the IRS if President Obama gets his way on taxes?

IS IT TRUE that when it comes to dividends which are a necessary part of the equation used to attract investment dollars to utility and blue chip stocks President Obama wants to raise the tax to triple what Governor Romney is proposing?…that raising the tax on dividend will make the build out of critical infrastructure by private utilities nearly impossible because investment dollars from retirees who depend on the dividend income will be going elsewhere?…these two devastating and confiscatory taxation differences are being completely ignored by mainstream media but that these two taxes will have a much higher impact on life in the USA than whether or not Bill Gates pays 39.6% or 35% on current earnings?